Signaling device.



C. REINKER.

SIGNALING DEVCE.

APP'LICATIoN/mw 1An.2s.1915.

1231298', Patented June 26, 1917.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN EEINKEB, F LAKEWOOD, OHIO, ASSIGNOIR T0 THE LIBERTY BELL OOI- PANY, 'OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION.'

SIGNALING DEVICE.

Specication of Letters Patent. Patented June 26, 1917.

limitation med January 2s, 1915. sr1a1N.4,szs.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that CURIs'rIAN REINKEB,- a citizen of ,the United States, residing at Lakewood/in the county of Cuyahoga and State of/hio, has invented certain new and usefuli[mpro\'c1nents in Signaling Devices, of which the following is a specification. l v/This invention pertains to a combined electric bell and light for signaling purposes, and the invention is especially adapted to be used on automobiles and other vehicles,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s a sectional elevation of the invention, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail and Fig. 4 is a cross section and plan on a line corresponding substan-. tially to i-11, Fig. 2.

In its broadest sense the invention consists in the combination of the bell B -with the lamp L located on the top thereof, and con- 'stitutin-g la single com lete article of manufacture and sale. Inetail, the said coper- `ating parts of the bell and lamp comprise a y standard S which serves as a support for both said parts and .asi a conducting medium in the electric circuit or circuits which go to the bell and the lamp respectively.

To these ends, the sald standard has a bracket portion 2 which serves as a rest or support for the electric magnet m and at its top the said standard has a vertically positioned neck n at the base of which there is a horizontally disposed arm or rojection a 'adapted to support an electrlcal contact screw which isconnected by a wire 6 to one end of the magnet winding m.' Screw 5 is insulated from said arm a andI contacts at its `bottom with a conducting spring stri 4 secured at its opposite end upon the top ace of the armature A.

The said armature is sensitively suported between the divided sidesof standard g, Fig. 2, by two pivot screws 8 and an extension of said strip L is bowed upward and inward to bear against neck n. whereby the armature is upheldv under spring tens-ion. The--elapper-v C for 'the bell also actsV as a; counterweight and as a tilting member for the armature, being suspendedtherefrom at one side of the ivot thereof between the bell and ltandar VNeck n is tubular and threaded' internally to receive a tubular coupling screw 10, which has a head 11 engaglng the -bottom of a soeketnmember 12 for the'clectric' bulb 14.' Coupling screw 10- proend of conductor 16. Strip 18 is bent upward at one end and fastened by a screw 9` to standard 5: The electric circuit for thel lamp or bulb 14 is established by the socket and the coupling tubeand the standard and also the wire 19 which connects with thc binding screw 20 on the standard and leads to one terminal of the battery 21, the other battery terminal having a wire connection 22 with a switch 23 and with a second binding screw 24: mounted upon but insulated from the tandard. The lamp circuit is completcd by a wire 25 connecting the screw 21 and the contact strip 18 for the central wire conductor 16 with which the lamp has end contact, see Fig. 1. f

The electrical circuit containing the magnet winding` rml also includes the standard S and the wires 19 and 22; and the magnet 4winding and the lamp are connected in parallel by a separate short wire 26 uniting one end of the magnet winding with the screw 24 and by wire 6 which connects the other end of said winding with the"contact screw 5 which has a make and break Workingrelation with the spring 4, thereby creatinga vibratory movement of the armature and a continued ringing of the bell while the lamp or bulb is illuminated constantly for the 'nterval of time elected bythe closing'of the button or switch 23.

4 The lam casing L is square 4in transverse section an rovided with one orirnore white -or colored enses 28 held in place within socket-shaped openings inits sidewalls b a three-sided plate 29 snugly sleeved wit in .the easing and provided Awith openings op- `device upon a Bracket 33 or other suitableV member or` part of an automobile or any other mainjsnpnorting body.

The tubulalvsew-threaded member 10 is in effect a reduced threaded extension. of the standard S whereby the lamp casing L may be detachably'surmounted upon the bell and the insulated conductor 16 passing through Said extension and forming the central contact of the lamp or bulb 14 in the base or bottom of the lamp socket 12 is to all practical purposes and effect an extension of the insulated wire 25. The bowed extension of spring strip 4 merely serves to maintain the armature under spring tension and any equivalent spring means for producing the same result may be'used instead without departing from the esseti'alstthe real. invention involved herein. The claims are therefore to be construed to cover all such modifications as may be properly regarded as equivalents.

-What I claim is:

1. A signaling device, comprising a bell andan electro-magnet having means to ring said bell, and a standard to carry said parts, in combination with an electric lamp sur mounting said bell, a tube connecting` said lamp and standard, an electrical conductor for the lamp extending through said tube, and a Contact member carried by the standard for the lower end of said conductor. l

2. In a combined electric bell and lamp, a standard and a bell and electro-magnet mounted thereon, means operated by said electro-magnet to ring said bell, a lamp casing and a lamp socket therein surmounting said bell, a screwthreaded tubular member detachably uniting said casing and Socket .through theaforesaid tubular stem.

4. In a signaling device, a standard, a

vtubular screw extension at the top of said standard, a bell Sleeved over said extension, an electro-magnet and a clapper and springpressed armature mounted upon Said standard to ring said bell, a binding screw mounted upon the lower portion of said standard and insulated therefrom., a lamp casing secured to Said eitension above said bell, an electric lamp seated within said casing, an electrical connection'for Said lamp extending through said tubular extension to said binding screw, an electrical conductor ccnnecting said binding screw and electro-mag net, and a contact for Said spring-pressed armature electrically connected with said electro-magnet.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of .two witnesses.

CHRISTIAN. REINKER. Witnesses:

R. B. MOSER, M. SGHWAN. 

